In recent years, China has emerged as the central boogeyman of the “neo-neocon” worldview. It’s Cold War hawkishness repackaged for a multipolar 21st century. While boomer neocons focused on the Middle East and globohomo, today’s neo-neocons have redirected anxieties toward Beijing, casting the ChIcOmS as the existential threat to “new” world order. They portray China not just as a rival superpower but as a civilizational adversary: authoritarian, expansionist, and bent on undermining the West through technology, trade, and military might. This framing serves both ideological and strategic purposes, justifying massive defense spending, reinforcing US globohomo, and creating a unifying fopo narrative amid domestic noise